Are Dietary Alzheimer's Recommendations Making You Stupid?

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(0:42) Okay, so today's topic is, are Alzheimer's dietary recommendations making you stupid? Yes, are the dietary recommendations that your doctors instructed to give you concerning Alzheimer's actually making you stupid? There's a good question. And I have to say, when I started looking into this, I thought, well, you know, there might be something to it. And then the further I looked, I was like, oh my God. So this is prompted, of course, by newly discovered research on Medscape. Thank you, Medscape.

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(7:00) All right, that brings us back to dietary recommendations for Alzheimer's. Are these dietary recommendations making you stupid? As always, we are, or I am, referencing the figures from the Medical Industrial Complex itself. So these are all establishment numbers, establishment data. There's no alternative woo-woo stuff in here. This is just the facts that anyone going online looking for, you know, numerical data is going to find. Okay, so first of all, what's the problem and how big is it really? There has been a 27-fold increase easily in dementia from 1900 to 2018. Now there are more dire projections for the future, but that we know from what we're going through, that that's what the Medical Industrial Complex does, dire predictions. But we don't need a dire prediction for this. We have a dire present. Now how bad is this? And that's always good to know. It turns out that more or less 2.09% of Americans have Alzheimer's. That's just a flat percentage of the population. It is not age adjusted.

(8:35) So let's see what the Medical Industrial Complex has to say that kind of piqued my interest here. Well, first of all, what is dementia? What's Alzheimer's? So we want to know that we're talking about the same thing here. So Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away and die. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia. D as in loss, people losing their mind. In other words, in order to get Alzheimer's, you have to have a mind and then lose the memory and mental capabilities that you have. So that's it. You have to start out somewhere and wherever you're starting out, you deteriorate from there. It is a continuous decline in thinking and behavior and social skills that disrupts the person's ability to function independently. Okay, that's important. So this is the total decline and the person becomes dependent because their brain just isn't able to figure out things like, I don't know how to go to the bathroom. Okay, so synonyms are amnesia, which means you can't remember anything like your kid's names and dementia, which means you can't figure out anything like how to open a door or something like that. So that's what we're dealing with. That is the definition.

(10:03) Now, a lot of people are interested in early diagnosis and early diagnosis makes sense when you have effective therapy available. So let's talk about therapy and how effective is it? This is April 29th, 2020, hot off the press and I think the headline pretty much tells the story. It says cognitive tests, that means IQ tests, biomarkers, that means checking someone's genes and blood, can pick up Alzheimer's. So they can they can diagnose this and detect this early, but treatments don't offer much relief. This is a terrible statement because if you will recall, cholesterol-lowering medications only help one person in 1,250 and they call that effective. So for them to say treatments don't offer much relief, that means it's less than one person in 1,250 who takes a drug for a whole year that can expect to improve. I don't know about you, but the English translation of still don't offer much relief is they're ineffective. Ineffective and so current trends provide little relief from symptoms according to three new reviews.

(11:28) So we don't need to go into this, spend a lot of time on it, but basically based on 57 studies of brief cognitive tests, researchers found that the Alzheimer's screen and assessment was able to distinguish normal and abnormal mental activities. However, you know therapy's not effective. A lot of drugs approved for Alzheimer's, but here we are confession medscape, they just don't work. All right, so we've got a condition. It is not treatable according to present day medications and there are tests to detect it.

(12:15) Now, so knowing that we now find medscape says there's a relationship between diet and dementia risk. There is new food for thought. There's a new study and this study is really shaking things up. And this as always, you know, when you take a look at like what's really going on, it often is not what you're expecting to have happen. So that's why you do research to look at things and to find things out, everything you didn't know. So it says the combination of foods that individuals consume may influence dementia risk as much as which foods they eat, new research suggests. Investigations from the University of Bordeaux in France examined food networks and found that individuals whose diets consisted mainly of highly processed and starchy foods were significantly more likely to develop dementia than those whose diets included also included processed foods, but incorporate a wider variety of healthy foods.

(13:29) These findings are in accordance with previous work from our group and many others on diet and cognitive health. However, the news here, this is shocking, is on the emphasis that how foods are consumed and combined, and not only the quantity consumed may be important for dementia risk. And this was published on April 22nd in Neurology. Novel network approach. We use that word novel a lot. Maybe there's, I don't know, they're preparing us, retraining us to believe anything that's followed, that follows the word novel, but whatever. That word was never used in medical school novel because we understood in medical school that novel meant fiction, a book you read that wasn't true, but now novel is something new and true. So, just updating the American dialectic here. All right, so current findings align with multiple previous studies that show strong association between specific food groups and the risk of getting dementia. For example, the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes high intake of plant foods, low consumption of meat and dairy, but there is consumption of meat and dairy. It's low, but there is consumption of meat and dairy. Among other factors is associated with lower risk of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease.

(15:00) They're making that statement, but we're going to get our own data. We're going to go through the demographics in the Mediterranean, what's the percent of Alzheimer's, and then we're going to compare that to the percent of Alzheimer's in the United States. So, whenever you have a study like this and they tell you, hey, this is true, that's true, there are census figures that tell us the outcome, and we can go straight to those figures and say, hey, what's going on? All right, similarly, the Mediterranean DASH diet intervention for neurodegenerative delay, MIND, which promotes intake of berries, green leafy vegetables, and other plant-based foods and limits consumption of saturated fat and animal foods has also been linked to a lower risk for dementia. Now, it doesn't eradicate dementia, okay? Now, we have a 27-fold increase in dementia in the United States from 1900 to 2018. If something increases 27-fold, even if it does take, you know, 118 years to happen, it's not genetic. It must be an environmental factor or a lifestyle factor or some cultural practice that has been adopted, okay?

(16:15) So, now what they're saying is, hey, eat some berries. However, the authors note that much of this previous research focused on quantity and frequency of foods. Our study went one step further to look at food networks and found important differences in the ways in which food items were co-consumed in people who went on to develop dementia and those who did not. So, what they did was they took a bunch of people and followed them over an extended period of time and saw who got dementia and who didn't and then compared their diets. Now, that is a scientific approach as opposed to putting people on a certain diet and see who does this or who does that. There you go. And the reason this is a more valid way of going about it is because whatever diet people are following is probably a diet they've been following for several decades. So, it allows a diet to truly express itself in terms of disease causation. So, using this approach, investigators assess the complex interplay between different foods and, in some cases, alcohol and other drinks when consumed together.

(17:32) Now, this is going to be doozy. So, participants came from three cities. Population-based cohort on dementia launched in 1999 to 2000. It included 9,294 non-institutionalized community-dwelling adults. That means they could pretty much eat what they wanted. And they had them over 65 years, which means they had a pretty good chance of getting Alzheimer's. Okay. So, baseline data included social class, lifestyle characteristics, medical information, neuropsychological testing results, blood pressure, how fat they were, and finding some blood samples. Okay. So, they did the survey in 2001 to 2002, and a qualitative food frequency questionnaire and a 24-hour dietary recall assessment administered in a face-to-face interview with trained dietitians.

(18:28) So, here is the clencher. So, the average age of the people in the study is 78 years old, and there were 74% women and 62% men, and they all graduated from high school, which is nice. So, they waited 12 years, and 215 people developed dementia. And they matched them with controls that did not get dementia. What they found was, although there were very few differences in the amount of foods individuals ate, overall food networks differed substantially between case participants and control persons. So, between people with Alzheimer's and not Alzheimer's, there's a huge dietary difference. And guess what? It's not what we thought it was.

(19:19) The hub or the main staple food in those who developed dementia was strong and focused. It was characterized by what the investigators described as charcuterie, which consists of highly processed meat, as well as potatoes and starchy foods, other meats, alcohol, and highly processed snacks. All right. So, let's just talk about what these foods are. So, highly processed meats. That means bologna, salami, smoked meats, ham, fermented meats. So, we're talking about a food material, and it's a very high parasite slash bacterial count. Now, they put a lot of nice spices in there to help with it, but let's just call it out for what it is. So, when they combine this high parasite content meat with lots of starches, potatoes, and alcohol to suppress the liver, and highly processed snacks, that would be potato chips, crackers, white bread. So, this diet has a very low nutritional content. Not many B vitamins, minerals, not any vitamin A, E, selenium, B vitamins, minerals. This is a very low-quality diet in terms of nutrition. These folks got Alzheimer's.

(20:49) What about the ones that did not get Alzheimer's? So, the network of the non-Alzheimer's people was more diverse and included several disconnected sub-networks reflecting generally healthier food choices. Get this. Those of you who drink alcohol, listen up. Alcohol consumption in both groups was relatively high. On average, nine drinks a week. If I drank nine drinks a week, I'm telling you, this show would not be televised. I don't know that I'd be able to turn the computer on, but this is their study group, and what they found was that whether you got Alzheimer's or not was not related to the amount of alcohol you drank. Very, very interesting, and just to buttress this, you know, I have friends who are alcoholics, and they're pretty bright. You know, you kind of wish they'd drink a little less so they'd be healthier, but definitely not demented. So, some of my observation definitely goes along with this, even though I would not drink that many drinks, but very interesting. So, we tell people, oh, you know, don't drink alcohol. It'll cause Alzheimer's. That's not where the payoff is.

(22:04) So, it turns out that if you want to avoid Alzheimer's, you can make changes to your diet, but they're much simpler and minimal and less than what you might think. This is very good news. So, overall, the investigators add, this application of network approaches to dietary risk and dementia suggests that a more diverse diet may be especially favorable, and that diets focused on processed meats, potatoes, starchy food, and unhealthy snacks may be associated with dementia risk many years later. Findings were likely generalized to many populations around the world, although this needs to be confirmed by future studies in specific countries.

(22:51) So, now, some countries, the general level of alcohol intake just really isn't that high. So, I'm not saying that you should increase your alcohol intake. What I am saying is, if you have a certain level of alcohol intake, and it's not causing you a problem, you don't need to quit your alcohol in order to avoid dementia. That's what I'm saying. Studies' strengths include this large population and long-term follow-up. Now, the other strength, as I mentioned before, is they did not manipulate the diet. They allowed everyone to say, hey, y'all, eat what you want, and then they followed these people over 12 years, and they took a snapshot at the beginning, and at the beginning, they didn't know who was going to get dementia. And the nice thing about not manipulating your diet was whatever diet you took in that first snapshot would be representative of their diet over the prior decades. And then, when you go forward the 12 years, take another snapshot, and this time, well, we see who got dementia. Now, you can look back at your first interview or your first snapshot and say, what's the difference between the ones that got dementia and the ones that didn't get dementia? So, this is actually a very powerful study, but they have, they found out more things. It says, cause for pause. So, that one piece of information is quit drinking alcohol, not relevant, not relevant. So, if the alcohol intake is not giving the person another health problem, then dementia or preventing dementia is not a reason to quit or cut back. So, in other words, you can drink whatever alcohol level is comfortable for you. Okay, in terms of dementia, we're not talking about other illness, just talking about dementia.

(24:49) There are a couple of interesting findings in the patient population that gives me pause, added a neurologist at Mayo Clinic. I was also impressed by the alcohol use in this population. They report nine servings of alcohol in the control and in the healthy and the sick group. So, I'm not sure how well this study represents the patients. So, then they go on to talk about other things. So, here's another article, same study. Contradictory findings for diet and dementia risk and the contradictory findings that are that it contradicts dietary recommendations. So, these will dig a little deeper. Contradicting results for several recently published studies show new research suggests a healthy diet during midlife does not prevent dementia. So, if you're, let's say, you eat junk food and wake up one day, you're 42, you're like, you know what, I think I'm probably gonna live a long time. I do not want to get dementia. I'm going to start eating healthy. That decision and even sticking with it does not reduce your dementia risk. Yeah, how cool is that?

(26:01) So, let's take a look and see if we can figure out why. A long-term perspective study of more than 8,000 British civil servants followed for 25 years found no significant association between following a healthier diet in midlife and a lower risk for incident dementia or cognitive decline. Very interesting. The investigators' own previous research showed a strong association between long-term adherence to a healthy diet and better heart health as well as a lower risk for depressive disorders and larger hippocampal volumes. So, hippocampus is a part of the brain. So, they had larger volumes of this part of the brain, which they wrongly associated with better brain function. And so, now they're finding, oops, these healthy habits, this healthy diet, which is so great for cardiovascular health, does not seem to have helped at all for dementia.

(27:07) So, in keeping with those findings, investigators thought that a healthy diet would have a long-term protective effect on dementia. But the lack of statistical validity between midlife diet quality and following risk of dementia assessed over 20 years was unexpected. So, now they're like, hmm. The data came from a Whitehall study in which 8,200 participants, 69% men, age 50 years, where diets were assessed using the alternate healthy eating index and higher scores indicate a longer-term healthier diet. They're divided into three groups, high, medium, and low, depending on whether their score reflected more healthy diet or a Western-type diet.

(27:37) So, healthy diet have a higher amount of, listen carefully, vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, and beans, and long chain omega-3 fatty acids, as in polyunsaturated fatty acids, and alcohol intake is in moderation. That means it's lower. So, we've lowered the alcohol intake and increased the vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, legumes, and long chain whatever. An unhealthy or Western diet is high in sugar-sweetened drinks and fruit juice, fried foods, processed and red meats, cakes, sweets, high fat dairy, refined grains, trans fats, and sodium. So, diet components were self-reported in the food frequency questionnaire and the instance of dementia was determined through linkage to electronic health records. And so, as I said, your electronic health records are absolutely not at all confidential. They are available to anyone who wants them. So, yeah, just remember that. The results showed 344 total cases of dementia with over a 25-year period. Researchers did not detect a significant difference in dementia incidence associated with a healthier diet in any of the three groups during the three time points.

(29:04) Wow, that is just wow. So, whether you ate healthy or not. Now, the analyses were adjusted for age, race, sex, education, ethnicity, Hispanic or not, marital status, single divorce, total energy intake, smoking stats, exercise, alcohol consumption, hypertension, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, stroke, use of medications, depressive symptoms, genotype, everything. So, they compared people who were identical in all these ways except one ate healthy and one continued eating standard American diet and there was no improvement. So, what happened? The researchers did find an association between diet and death in a small subgroup. There was a significant association between diet and depression but not dementia. A slight decrease in diet quality in the years preceding dementia diagnosis were reported in the present study is compatible with my hypothesis that change in diet quality is a feature of preclinical dementia.

(30:43) So, what went wrong? So, I can tell you how I figured out what went wrong. I was vegan for 26 years and so as a vegan, I was following these healthy diet guidelines. I mean nuts, beans, vegetables, legumes, and I even went all organic. I mean I did not scrimp and my mental capacities just went so why would that be? And the answer is the brain has an absolute dietary requirement for cholesterol, absolute dietary requirement for cholesterol. And so, if you embark on a diet that is severely deficient in cholesterol which is the diet that they are describing here as healthy, then you're going to get more dementia. So, we're saying diet still matters. So, say a healthy midlife diet was associated greater hippocampus volume. Yep. So, the brain had more mass like you know lights on nobody home. So, that's not good enough. You want to be able to function.

(31:48) Other studies have shown an association between better brain health and eating more fruits and vegetables in midlife. Now, again there's better brain health immediately when you start eating these. Let's say you're on a high meat trash diet. As soon as you start eating those fruits and vegetables, your mind is going to feel better. And it's going to feel better for anywhere from a week to maybe two years. And then over the long term though, you're going to experience mental decline into stupidity. I can't remember anything. I don't know where I am. Can I hold your hand? Can I just follow you? I mean literally, I could not figure out a thing. I couldn't figure out a thing. So, what did I start eating? I started eating high cholesterol foods. And to this day the higher the cholesterol, man I'm eating it. So, one very high cholesterol food which is extremely healthy is liver. It turns out calf liver and chicken liver are the two best livers to eat. Salt, pepper, liver, onions, four ingredients. That's the recipe. And it makes a world of difference. And you will find your mind being quite a bit sharper. Also, believe it or not, something like bacon. So, bacon and same with ham hocks will increase not only your intelligence, but it will increase your mood and stability. So, what they're—the confusion here is the initial cleansing effect of these berries and vegetables and asparagus and green leafy vegetables is beneficial. But as the person continues eating those things and excluding the high cholesterol fatty meats, the effect of these healthy fruits and vegetables turns from cleansing to depleting.

(33:37) And that's why in the long term over a 25-year period like this study looked at, it actually does not have a beneficial effect on Alzheimer's. And that's what happened to me. When I became vegetarian and stopped the meat, I mean, I felt really good. I felt great for about a year or two. And even into year 12, there were things that were getting better. My, I had scars that I'd had since a kid and my skin that were going away. I, you know, had some energy, although again, once it got past year 12 or so, my energy started declining and getting lower and lower and lower. So, the problem is the fruits and vegetable diet over time becomes depleting.

(34:44) A study investigation led by some doctors in Australia suggested, which means didn't prove anything, that an unhealthy diet could shrink the brain. So, you have a suggestion, there's a possibility, we call it a rumor. Okay, so most previous studies on diet and dementia were inconsistent. And the reason these studies are so confused is because they're not looking at the nutritional requirements of the brain, what's the brain composed of, and what's being depleted over time. And so, if you look at the Alzheimer's person and their diet and how it changes over time, then it becomes pretty clear. Now, here's another thing to look at, is we're told to follow the Mediterranean diet that lowers Alzheimer's. I said, well, you know what, let's pick a country in the Mediterranean, Italy. I looked it up, Italy's in the Mediterranean, and see how much Alzheimer's they have. It's a Mediterranean company, country, they must be following the Mediterranean diet. That sounds good.

(36:07) So, first of all, what is—so I picked Italy, just pulled out the hat, and Mediterranean diet, we looked that up, and the traditional Mediterranean diet includes poultry, that's chicken, red meat, that'd be beef, beef, chicken, duck, goat, guinea fowl, lamb, mutton, and pork. Now, you will notice the regular American diet, you're lucky to get beef, chicken, and pork. Assuming you aren't going to get guinea fowl, unless you raise your own, and you're unlikely to get goat, unless you have an ethnic background that eats goat, and duck is tough to come by. Maybe every several years, you might get a piece. Lamb, no. Mutton, no. So, immediately, we see they eat a wider range of animals. All right, that's different. Next, they eat whole wheat and oats, the gluten-free diet here. Next, they eat vegetables, and fruits, and olive oil, and some dairy. That's it, that's the whole diet. Oh, but wait, how do they eat this? They eat it in the company of friends, and they cook it themselves at home. Big difference.

(37:23) So, in the United States, then, if you have someone following a Mediterranean diet, but buying it in the form of packaged foods, they're not making progress. If they're following the Mediterranean diet, but they're not eating this wide range of animals, again, they're not getting the nutritional diversity that the Mediterranean diet has. And then, if they are not sharing meals with family members, friends, or loved ones, then they're not getting the immune system strengthening emotional reinforcement that that style or lifestyle gives.

(37:52) So, that's the Mediterranean diet. Oh, what's not in the Mediterranean diet? So, it's not these things aren't there. It's that they avoid these, supposedly, and they avoid refined grains like white bread, white pasta, pizza dough containing white flour. I have not been to Italy, so I cannot say. Refined oils, which include canola oil and soybean oil. They also don't seem to eat added sugars like pastries, sodas, and candies. And they don't eat deli meats, hot dogs, and other processed meats, and processed or packaged foods. This is what we, as doctors, represent to patients that that's what a Mediterranean diet is.

(38:47) Okay, so I said myself, all right, so this diet will take Italy. What percent of Italians, what is the prevalence of dementia in Italy? 2.09 percent. I said, okay, is that a lot or little? I don't know. But wait, it says here only 1.55 percent of people in Europe have dementia. So, we've taken a Mediterranean diet from part of Europe, the Mediterranean, and it appears to be higher in dementia. So, I said, wait a minute, if this diet that Italy is following is a high dementia diet, what is the percent of dementia in the United States? You can find this very easily. Just ask Google prevalence of dementia in the United States. Now, it's going to take a little bit of mathematical skills, about fourth-grade math skills, to sort this out. But here's what you do. You Google prevalence of Alzheimer's disease. And by decades in the United States from 1900 to 2050. And you look at this, you notice the graph goes from 1900 all the way to 2050. I'm like, well, that's some BS, isn't it? So, I said, ain't hardly 2050. So, it's 2020. So, let's say the graph is accurate to 2010, 2020, somewhere in there. So, you go up in the graph and you see that it's somewhere around 7 million, 6.8 million people in the United States that have Alzheimer's. I happen to know it's 327 million people in the United States. You do the math and it's 2.09 percent of Americans have Alzheimer's. In other words, we have taken a country, a Mediterranean diet, Mediterranean area, that has the same incidence of Alzheimer's as the United States and adopted their diet as a remedy for Alzheimer's. When the incidence of Alzheimer's in the United States is the same as theirs.

(40:56) Why don't we follow the European diet? At least we could get a 25 percent reduction in Alzheimer's. What do you think? Well, I did go to England. I can tell you, man, they don't mess around with that diet. This is worth looking up. Full English breakfast. As you guys know, I don't eat just about anything in terms of, you know, trying it out. See if it makes a difference. All right.

(41:37) So, we have here full English breakfast. Now, so what I'm suggesting to you is maybe the fact that there's no Alzheimer's or 25 percent less Alzheimer's in Europe outside of Italy or outside the Mediterranean is because of their diet. Let's take a look at their diet. This is radically different from the Mediterranean diet. Here we have the full English breakfast and I will tell you what I believe to be the essential components to it. So, I had a full English breakfast when I was in England. Then I came back home and I noticed, you know, I kind of felt more energetic and so I decided I would have my version of the full English breakfast. Oh, my God. My mind, whew, very sharp energy all day long. Got as much done in a day as I usually get done in a week. I said, wow, this is great. And so, I try to eat a full English breakfast about three times a week.

(42:34) Now, this is not for the faint of heart. I'll tell you. Now, in England, they do it up, you know, it's a big commercial thing. But the, you have eggs, two eggs, not one, two eggs, okay, two eggs, a serious two eggs. Then you have black pudding. The only reason you don't know why it's called black pudding is because you've never cooked it. So, I bought some black sausage and I cooked them and I saw, oh, that's why they call it black pudding. So, they have this black material, which they stuff into casing. It looks like a sausage, but it maintains a consistency of pudding. So, when you cut it open, it's pudding and it goes all over your plate like pudding. So, I'd say, let's just cut to the chase here. Let's slice the thing open and heat the whole thing and then just scrape the pudding onto the plate. So, what's in this black pudding? Animal blood is in the black pudding. Oatmeal is in the black pudding. And immune-boosting spices are in the black pudding. And there's a little bit of meat in the black pudding. But this is a major energy booster. So, you've got your two eggs, which is a nice shot of cholesterol for you, for your brain. You've got the black pudding, ultra high in nutrition, in B vitamins and in iron and protein.

(44:06) Oh, but don't stop there. Now, you need four slices of bacon. Oh yeah, four slices of bacon. And then, you need at least one slice of tomato. I would recommend two. And then, you need at least one slice of toast. I generally have two. That's pretty filling. When I get through eating the full English breakfast, yeah, I am done for the day. I've eaten all the food for the day that I'm going to eat, except towards the end, I might have a piece of fruit in the afternoon or something.

(44:41) So, what's in this full English breakfast that makes this big difference, causes mental sharpness and physical energy? First of all, the cholesterol. And that is a huge, huge thing. So, once you pump this much cholesterol into your system, then your brain does not get depleted its cholesterol to fix and repair the rest of the body. That's important. Then, ultra high in B vitamins, ultra high in minerals, the minerals because of the blood. And then, iron in case you need it. Now, if you're in England, they would add a scoop of canned pork and beans and two more slices of some miscellaneous sausage, but those are not necessary. Now, the next thing is the tomatoes. Tomatoes are very, very important because the tomatoes can contain the moisture content and antioxidants that you need to keep from having a stroke from the egg, the bacon, and the black sausage. Don't forget your tomato slices. And you will see when you eat the tomatoes, you take a little wedge of tomato, some bacon, some egg on the bread, take a bite, and it feels amazing. So, that would easily explain, to my mind, the 25 percent reduction in Alzheimer's in England. Well, why don't they just tell Americans, well, follow the European diet, you know, follow a European diet. No, because it might work, right? Because you'd have an immediate drop of 25 percent in Alzheimer's.

(46:34) So, yes, the information your doctor is giving you about an Alzheimer's diet is making you stupid. And if you already have Alzheimer's or you're taking care of somebody with Alzheimer's, then feeding them this fruit, vegetable, and oats diet is going to simply make them dumber and dumber. I could think they had the Saturday night skit, Dumb and Dumber, but that's what you're doing. You're literally stripping and depleting your brain of cholesterol because your body can only make, can only make at best, 75 percent of the cholesterol it needs. So, if you're on a diet that has low or no cholesterol, your body has to dissolve and deteriorate your brain in order to support your vital organs and your cell membranes throughout the body. That's a problem. And this is also why cholesterol-lowering drugs have dementia as a side effect. If you lower your cholesterol, you're just going to get stupid. So, I try to keep my cholesterol very high. No, I've not been measuring it, but I've been eating lots of high cholesterol foods. Now, your doctor will tell you that eating high cholesterol foods will not raise your cholesterol. That is simply not true. Now, let's see what else science has to tell us about this.

(48:14) So, diet and dementia, they're like, you know what? Our drugs don't work. Our diets don't work. Yeah, contradictory findings of diet. So, this is also why the alcohol is not that much of an issue. The real issue for dementia is, do you have the cholesterol or don't you? Do you have the B vitamins or don't you? Do you have the fat to create the myelin sheath around your nerves or don't you? And if you don't have the nutrition, guess what? You're going to get stupid. And so, there's some evidence that flavonoids are linked to lower Alzheimer's risk. Again, lower Alzheimer's risk. This is, you know, what we want. What we're really looking for is, we don't want to get Alzheimer's and we want, if we have it, to get rid of it. And so, this is another thing about studies. A lot of times, you look at the wrong thing. When I say the wrong thing, I mean, they measure something that is not of importance to any one particular patient or to any one particular doctor in guiding him as to what to do. And this is one such study.

(49:28) So, a number of flavonoid classes, including flavanols, are known to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory properties. Now, inflammatory, any inflammation, is your body's reaction to poisons. You definitely don't want to tell your body, ah, it's just poison. Forget it. Let it slide. Look away. Go do something else. What you want to do, if you have a poison in the body, is you want your immune system to get rid of it, preferably by drinking more water. And even better, hey, take a few poops. And that's what Vitality Capsules is all about. Helping people to dump their waste, clear out their body, and get rid of stuff that causes inflammation. If it doesn't belong there, hey, just let go of it. Yeah.

(50:29) Show that the highest quintile of total flavanol intake had a 48% lower risk for Alzheimer's disease versus individuals in the lowest quintile. So again, you have 100% of people, so you're measuring the top 5%. We don't know how much of what they ate, right, with the bottom 5%. And that's a whole probability thing. And a better, again, a better study is to look at the people with Alzheimer's. What are they eating? What are they not eating? Look at the ones without Alzheimer's. What are they eating? What are they not eating? And have the ones who have Alzheimer's eat more of what the non-Alzheimer's people are eating.

(51:14) Dietary intake of onions was not associated with a substantially reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease, which makes no sense. So, in other words, tomatoes, kale, apples, and tea, they found to be of not much help. However, kale, beans, spinach, broccoli, wine, oranges, and tomatoes led the list for beneficial things. And so it's very confusing because certain things are contained in more than one type of food. And so what older people really need is they need a diversity of foods. They need to eat fresh meats. So meats that are not from the deli. Now again, bacon and blood sausage is what it's called. It's called black pudding or blood sausage. So if you're in the United States, I think they call it blood sausage in the United States. And here in Central America, they call it blood sausage as well.

(52:46) And so the advice to eat vegetables, vegetables, vegetables is not going to protect you from Alzheimer's. So if you are already eating vegetables and you want to avoid Alzheimer's, you need to add, in my opinion, blood sausage, liver, and bacon to your menu. Let's say you already have that on your menu and you want to reduce your chances of having Alzheimer's. Clearly at that point, you would need to add fruits and vegetables. So you need both. You need the cleansing agent to get rid of the toxins, which is then that cleansing is in your vegetables and their fiber and their detergent action from their acids. And then you also need the antibiotic or restorative function of the high cholesterol animal products. That would be the bacon, the blood sausage, and the liver.

(53:59) Let's see if we can find those questions. We're going to click here.

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(54:35) When I eat pine nuts, I have a violent reaction with it coming out both ends simultaneously. Can I still take turpentine as it is distilled? The answer is yes, but I would say just take it once a week and take a very small amount, maybe like two drops, and you can work your way up.

(54:51) I have a problem with gin due to juniper berries, I believe. Oh, then don't drink gin. That's okay.

(55:10) My husband has had toenail fungus for the past three months. I have been applying a clear nail polish and Lamisil ointment twice a day with little results. Any suggestions? Yeah, just drop some turpentine on those nails, like two or three drops at bedtime.

(55:33) Thank you for helping the common folk and teaching us how to heal ourselves and others. Your work is well appreciated. I preach what you teach.

(55:59) Okay, so my daughter took Accutane and has been just developing a slew of sickness ever since. So, if you know she took Accutane, Accutane is a vitamin A type analog and interferes with its metabolism. It's actually pretty dangerous, so you're lucky she just didn't just die. It causes death and suicide. People with blues jump off of buildings.

(56:51) So, it's an isomer of retinin, which is a precursor to vitamin A. So, it basically all over your body where you would use vitamin A, this chemical inserts itself as a fake vitamin A, basically. And so, the simplest solution is to eat high dose vitamin A. The highest vitamin A food happens to be liver. Yep, liver. Beef liver. I would go for calf liver.

(57:24) I would go for calf liver though. It has fewer toxins. So, yeah, either calf liver, salt, pepper, liver, onions, that's the recipe. Have some rice and cooked vegetable inside and a few leaves of lettuce. Let's see, there we are.

(57:50) Hi, Dr. Daniels. I'm 51 years old. I want to say I'm not obviously able to answer all questions. So, if your question is not answered, maybe it'll be answered next week. You never know. But also, some appointments are available. You can go to vitalitycapsules.com and click appointments at the top upper right.

(58:05) Okay, so I think we have time for one more question here. Hi, Dr. Daniels. I'm 51 years old. Yay! And planning on beginning the Turpentine Protocol. Congratulations. A couple of good questions. If I want to use castor oil to get regular bowel movements instead of vitality capsules, would that be okay? And the answer is yes. However, most people who use castor oil on a daily basis to stay regular become exhausted because castor oil is extremely, extremely, extremely depleting. So, that's why I don't recommend it. Now, culturally speaking, it is used for regularity, but the way it's used is once a week. And so, if you go to vitalitycapsules.com, download the Candida Cleaner Report, it tells you about castor oil and about its use.

(58:59) But I don't recommend a daily use. The only thing about castor oil is the taste is pretty bad. It's pretty rough. It's a really bad experience. So, most people find that they can swallow castor oil about five times, somewhere between five and ten. After that, it's like, and people just, they would just rather die than take any more castor oil. So, that's the castor oil story.

(59:30) Do people always use sugar to take turpentine? No, they don't, but that's what I recommend. Do people take turpentine by itself or with castor oil? Okay, so what you've just showed me is you have not read the report. In other words, it is not safe for you to take. Don't even go one step further. Go to vitalitycapsules.com, download the report. For Christ's sake, it's free. You don't need to take chances. You don't need to risk your life. Please, keep it safe. Go to vitalitycapsules.com, download the free report. The Candida Cleaner is the name of it. And read that a few times.

(1:00:06) Okay, let's see how we're doing here. All right, we are out of time. So, we will see you again next week. And as always, think happens. And definitely go to vitalitycapsules.com, get your Vitality Capsules, and we can also see you at the Customer Appreciation Webinar.